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Table 5 Treatment rankings, the probability of being the best treatment, under the considered Bayesian

From: Modelling heterogeneity variances in multiple treatment comparison meta-analysis – Are informative priors the better solution?

Model and prior

Trt1

Trt2

Trt3

Trt4

Weakly informed variances models

    

Homogeneous variance

0.00%

28.2%

0.00%

71.8%

Unrestricted variances

0.01%

56.8%

0.00%

43.2%

Exchangeable variances

0.01%

49.3%

0.02%

50.4%

Consistency variances structure

0.04%

45.0%

0.01%

55.9%

Moderately informed variances models

    

Frequentist informed priors

0.00%

42.5%

0.00%

57.5%

Empirically informed priors

0.00%

46.5%

0.00%

53.5%

  1. MTC models for the second illustrative example.